Overcrowding is a long-lived issue in the Salt Lake County jail system. One Utah lawmaker thinks a solution could be in our pockets: cellphones.
Earlier in September, a new law restricted one of the tools the county sheriff’s office used to control the jail population, so the corrections bureau of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office thinks overcrowding will persist. One solution is increasing capacity. The Salt Lake County council approved a sales tax hike earlier this year to fund opening more jail beds.
But state Rep. Grant Miller said that won’t fix the underlying issue. If there are more beds, he said the county will find ways to fill them…